Mother, she wrote : matrilineal narratives in contemporary women's writing
Yi-Lin Yu (Author)
"In this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new plane - in search of a new synthesis. With its specific focus on the three-tiered matrilineal narratives, Mother, She Wrote is distinguished by its complex and innovative deployment of psychoanalytic subject-relations theories, and a meticulous and detailed discussion of various literary texts, which calls forth a powerful reformulation of these narratives. One of the main strengths of this book is this simultaneous and tactful command of theory and literary practice. Apart from advocating the burgeoning development of women's writing of matrilineal narratives, the author also sheds new light on further research in the area of feminist motherhood and mothering." -- Publisher's description
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 237 pages ; 23 cm
9780820469003, 0820469009
52509431
Feminism and matrilinealism
Feminism, matrilinealism, and psychoanalysis
New feminist family romances
Marianne Frederickson's Hanna's daughters
Jung Chang's Wild swans
Margaret Forster's Hidden lives
Margaret Drabble's The peppered moth
A poetics of matrilineal narratives
Diasporic matrilineal narraties [sic]
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Amy Tan's The joy luck club
Judy Budnitz's If I told you once
A poetics of diasporic matrilineal narratives